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diff --git a/Documentation/blame-options.txt b/Documentation/blame-options.txt index 7f28432254..63fc197fbe 100644 --- a/Documentation/blame-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/blame-options.txt @@ -70,11 +70,19 @@ of lines before or after the line given by <start>. tree copy has the contents of the named file (specify `-` to make the command read from the standard input). +--date <format>:: + The value is one of the following alternatives: + {relative,local,default,iso,rfc,short}. If --date is not + provided, the value of the blame.date config variable is + used. If the blame.date config variable is also not set, the + iso format is used. For more information, See the discussion + of the --date option at linkgit:git-log[1]. + -M|<num>|:: Detect moving lines in the file as well. When a commit moves a block of lines in a file (e.g. the original file has A and then B, and the commit changes it to B and - then A), traditional 'blame' algorithm typically blames + then A), the traditional 'blame' algorithm typically blames the lines that were moved up (i.e. B) to the parent and assigns blame to the lines that were moved down (i.e. A) to the child commit. With this option, both groups of lines @@ -90,8 +98,8 @@ commit. files that were modified in the same commit. This is useful when you reorganize your program and move code around across files. When this option is given twice, - the command looks for copies from all other files in the - parent for the commit that creates the file in addition. + the command additionally looks for copies from all other + files in the parent for the commit that creates the file. + <num> is optional but it is the lower bound on the number of alphanumeric characters that git must detect as moving |